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It sounds extraordinary but its a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. (Broderick Matthew)
What is high finance? Its knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. Its no more than that. (Broderick Matthew)
I wake up every morning and thank God Im not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property. (Broderick Matthew)
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. (Broderick Matthew)
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It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because thats the way the world is. (Broderick Matthew)
The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government. (Broderick Matthew)
You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without diluting the stock. (Broderick Matthew)
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. (Broderick Matthew)
The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned world. (Broderick Matthew)
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. (Broderick Matthew)
What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. (Broderick Matthew)
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. (Broderick Matthew)
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. (Broderick Matthew)
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. (Broderick Matthew)
“I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. ” (Broderick Matthew)
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